Lacy The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-78204-020-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 72, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Arthurian Studies

The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature, investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lacy, Norris J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Furtado, Antonio L.

Eckhardt, Caroline

Johnson, David F.

Carley, James P

Harty, Kevin J

Kalinke, Marianne

Meuwese, Martine

Lacy, Norris J.

Field, Peter J C

Boardman, Phillip C

Barber, Richard

Trachsler, Richard

Hasty, Will

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Norris J. Lacy
Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail - Norris J. Lacy
The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art - Martine Meuwese
The Crusaders' Grail - Antonio L. Furtado
Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival - Will Hasty
The Land Without the Grail: A Note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and Literary History - Richard Trachsler
Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Legend of Tristram and Ísodd - Marianne Kalinke
Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation - David F. Johnson
Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives - Caroline Eckhardt
Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur - Phillip C Boardman
Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail - Peter J.C. Field
Glastonbury, the Grail-Bearer and the Sixteenth-Century Antiquaries - James Carley
The Grail Quest: Where Next? - Richard Barber
Appendix: The Grail on Film - Kevin J Harty

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson David F.:
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.Barber Richard:
RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.